For Ajay Satpute, a social and affective neuroscientist at Northeastern University and a core faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI), the best place to start is with a specific emotion: fear.

The widely quoted statistic that health care accounts for 8.5% of the nation’s emissions was developed by Matthew Eckelman, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, Yale’s Sherman, and other colleagues. 

But “when we’re talking about advertising for opportunities like jobs, housing, credit, even education, we can see that the things that might have worked quite well for selling products can lead to societally problematic outcomes,” said Piotr Sapiezynski, a researcher at Northeastern University, who co-authored the study alongside PhD candidate Levi Kaplan, undergraduate Nicole Gerzon, […]

Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox published data in 2013 indicating that violent crime increases on Halloween night.

Leo Beletsky, Northeastern University assistant professor of Law and Health Sciences, said using coercive approaches might seem like an option, but he called it “using the wrong tools to address the problem” and doesn’t provide any kind of “lasting solution.”

“If you have lots of people moving at the same time from the pharmaceutical market to the illicit market, lots of bad things can happen,” says Leo Beletsky, an epidemiologist and the faculty director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab. “Conditions are very much ripe for that to happen here.”

Darin Detwiler, an assistant teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and an expert on food industry regulation, told the Associated Press he sees a lot of potential pathogens in the cracks of wooden butter boards.

They basically say, “Give us your money now, we’ll innovate and eventually earn more cash down the road.” That’s why tech companies are often known as growth companies, said Northeastern University’s John Bai.

Dairy isn’t the only sector of agriculture that’s affected. It’s hard to say which farmers will be hit worst in the absence of further research, but a recent Northeastern University study shows contamination in over 50,000 locations across the country. The report highlights a dreaded realization for scientists: PFAS is far more prevalent than they […]

Northeastern University’s Storybench covers how journalists are using data visualization and investigative journalism tools to do their work. The “under the hood” approach offers a helpful window into how people are creatively putting journalism tools into practice.

“We were out-staffed. We were out-advertised. It was a tough situation,” recalled Peter Enrich, an emeritus professor of tax law at Northeastern University who was involved in the 1994 effort and serves as an adviser to today’s Question 1 proponents.

Leo Beletsky, an opioid expert at Northeastern University in Boston who was also not involved in the trial, agreed, noting that Floyd didn’t exhibit the typical signs of opioid overdose.